However, if most of all others feel like the white males are trying to control them, and that only white males can benefit from the Republican party getting elected, we're not going to get anyone in office.

Less species? nope, just a smaller fraction of voters in the US than ever before.

The blame game is played, and sometimes too many apologies are expected when not warranted.

The point being, you can't run for office anymore and have a good chance to win if you're or your party is perceived as wanting to keep white males in total control and keep others down.

That's the way too many speakers in the Republican party come across too often. Does it represent a majority of registered Republicans, probably (and I hope) not, but if the Republican party doesn't get rid of representatives (no matter how few) making enemies of everyone not white male, the Republican party is going to fade in political significance. I fear that as such happens, some within the party will urge doubling down on attacking minorities in one way or the other until conservative is such a dirty word in politics that it will drive reasonable conservatives into hiding.

Over 40 years ago I heard accusations that Republicans was a rich mans party, they still have problems with that label, and too often some unwise, if not idiotic, positioins and speeches have convinced groups that the members of the Republican party will do anything to keep control of government and business in the hands of a self perpetuating clique.

I still hear people complain about blacks not knowing their place, and those people call themselves conservatives. I still hear the "n" word, though that has almost died out. I hear some of those same people make deragatory remarks about those Mexicans. Things like...... yeah they work hard when they first come here but then they learn to work the system and just sit and drink on a porch living a dozen to a house.

I still hear this ****, with the speakers checking over their shoulders to make sure there is no non-whites around. I've gotten up and left groups before, I've said something against it, though no as much as I should. It's too tempting to just leave and avoid those than get in an arguement.

but it seems that republicans have a lot more of their wealthy contributors among business people and democrats have a good share of their wealthy contributors coming from Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general. That's just my perception but I only get this from what I see in the media. We know that Obama traveled with entertainers during his campaign...especially when visiting college campuses. Romney maybe had one or two speak on his behalf but his audiences were not treated to mini concerts the way Obama's were. I suppose Romney could have had a high profile business person put in a good word for him during his campaign tours but that would probably not do as much on college campuses as Bruce Springsteen did.

as most stories seem to give credit to white Christian males. From there we learn about the oppression of women so now we're divided in half with men the bad guys and women the good. Next we have slavery so that leaves white Christian males holding the bad since they also are bad boys for oppressing women. So now we have women and African Americans who are now and forever the good guys and white Christian males remain the bad. More recently we've added brown skinned persons to the mix of whom many didn't come across the borders legally. So what do we do about that? It's been a problem for all races and genders who were here already but we have those who, by nature of their previous fights for liberties, won't be counted among the vilified for objecting to illegal immigrants. We've most recently added a subset to all races and genders...those being gay. They are now an oppressed minority so any who are white males are relieved of any past guilt for being oppressors. We have a very cunning man in the White House who took advantage of this history but added another dimension. White people in general control most of the country's wealth. Most of the wealthy businessmen are white. They are the enemy off all including the poorer white males. Our president was able unite the majority of the perceived oppressed against the wealthy. The Republican party fielded a wealthy white Christian male. Oddly enough the vote wasn't a runaway by any means but it was enough to win.

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